Neeko with Zed
How to Synergize Neeko and Zed
based on 2,349 Neeko with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Neeko Zed Synergy Summary
Best Neeko vs Zed Counter Build
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Core Neeko Items
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Guide to Synergizing Neeko and Zed
Tips for Playing as Neeko with Zed
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Neeko Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Neeko in LoL
The Neeko Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Neeko sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Neeko perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Neeko plays on the same team as Zed, she observes a small decrease in her full damage output. This change may signal that Zed doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Neeko plays with Zed on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Neeko in team fights.
Synergies between Neeko and Zed
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Is Neeko better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top champion pairing for Neeko that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Zed is a relatively poor ally for Neeko. By playing on the same team as Neeko, he decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Neeko and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Neeko. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Zed allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Neeko and Zed together, you probably will not be giving your team enough engage potential. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Neeko to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Neeko and Zed synergy build consist of Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Neeko incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Zed than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Neeko boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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